Are Erik Allebest(erik) and Jarom Severson(Jay) millionaires?

Chess.com is the 841th website with the most views daily, according to Alexa in May 2018. That's actually pretty good, considering the millions of websites out there. But are the co-founders of this website with more than 20M+ members and 1B+ games actually millionaires? Or even close to it?

Let's contemplate and discuss.

I'm sure they aren't millionaires.

I wonder which site has the most views.... Google perhaps?

I was right! Then it's YouTube.

I officially like Alexa.

She's Amazon's Siri.

I think they are thousandairs. 

Oof.

Just guessing, they have more than me,but hey...

Most likely not.

They are rich enough , and they deserve It. Chess.com in N1 

Minus 2.

The average salary is over $100,000, so this is almost definitely their only job.

It's rather gauche to discuss someone's earnings.  Whatever it might be, they've earned it through their hard work, risk and fairness.

Mostly just 2 things: risk and circumstance.

Sure there's work involved, but the important work is done by people with actual skills, the people who are hired.

Fairness is a weird one to throw in.

And I didn't mean that directed at chess.com only, I mean successful businesses in general.

I think you underestimate the actual effort both Jay and Erik have expended.   Fairness isn't weird.  Fairness is important in my opinion - and sorely lacking in many enterprises.  But I wasn't talking about the ingredients for success as much as the worthiness of the success. 

If he's not a millionaire, he's probably close to it......I've been giving him my food stamps for 12 yrs now. 

You have been looking a little emaciated...

 batgirl, pls, just delete this stupid forum

What do we mean by fairness though? Is it playing by the rules? Ok, then it's fair.

Is it fair Capa didn't get a rematch with Alekhine? Kasparov with Kramnik?

Is it fair some actor may work 12 hours a day, for a few months, and make millions? Yeah it's hard work, but what do we mean by "fair?"

Anyway, if they spend 6 figures a year (or at the very least close to it) to get GMs playing here, then I think it's pretty safe to assume business is good

I wish they'd spend more on I.T. personnel (how many years did V3 take again?) but whatever.